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Budget Analysis
Sir, Mr. T.A. Martin by incuna of his excellent analysis presented before the meeting of the Réform Club on Monday evening, his afforded us more clear-cut ple- ture as the appalling cost of Qovernment in relation to the. benefits received (7) than we should ever have been able to Hurner frum perusal of the care fully camoulaged Budget Ogures published by Government, and this analysis well
undoubtedly cause many to wonder whether the outlay upon any Depart- ments of the Covernment i Justified by the utility of those Desartments In regard to the everyday lid of the Colony
We are told that Mr. 5.S Ross, our long delayed efficiency ex
THE CHINA, MAIL,' 'THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949,
Lotteries For Charity Legalised In Amendment
Three amending ordinances were enacted into law by Lagistative Council yesterday. They word: The Gambling (Amendment) Ordinance 1949, which legalises the running of lotteries for charity.
Personalia
The forthcoming wedding has CLOV of. Ms.
The Summary Offences (Amendment) Ordinance 1949, which among other things prohibits the taking of photo- graphs and the making of sketches in Court, and their publication
Tho Medical
Registration been (Amendment) Ordinance 1949, uard, J... of 214 Peninsula Cipolloliés Part 2 of the Medkai Hotel, and Mts. Grace Penn..of Register and defines the styles 15 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong. under wild Chinese herbalists may usd in practics, to distinguish ther from those practising
elentine medidine,
Dr
S.N. Chau, Aupporting the
announced
Departures from the Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday included Mr. aid Bir. A. Pomuros, Mr. and
sion of those whose qualifications Don Do, H.D.
Tato,
peri, is now studying ways and lust amendment, said abolition Mrs. P.A. Ricker, Miss E, M. means of reducing expenditure, Part 2 or the Medical Register Gray, Miss. A. Parsons, Mesars. and i
we may be so bold as to would Temova the loophole, It i
McDowell. uffer a suggestion, it is that before, with
JD. Palmer, J.W attempting to pruns, expenditure hitherto existing, for the admis-
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Brenchley, NJ. precluded them front Part 1. Up
O.E. J.C. Lancashire, 1048. ho
R.E. Khon sraduates from Jaune mediend Shingedecker,
J.H.B. Stephens, T.G. Champ- on the Registar. Government's leis, L. Newbould, Wen Fing. action would protect the legit M. D. L Dickson, K. Colegate, M. mate interests of the medien pro-Kilian, D.H. Williams, and F..
he should ask Himself whether the abolition of certain Departments
in tuts could not be effected with- qut any appreciable adverse effect upon the well-being of the Colony We are not in a position to afford expensive luxuries, and into thin category, we are inclled K be- Heke, some Departments fall.
fession.
medical
McCrory.
"Due to The present shortage of medical personnel, the Govern- The Department of S.T. & 1.
ment has employed on a yearly
Among the new arrivals at the has long einer outlived it use- basin certain persons whose Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday werg fulness, and even though we are qualifications are not recognized Captain and Mrs. H.F. Bolland, told that it is now to be incor- here. It is earnestly hoped that Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Thomson, porated with the Department of this expedient is only temporary hir. and Mrs. M. de Dianous, Mr. industry and Commerce, we in nature and that as soon as und Mrs. J.F. MacLennan, Mrs. suspect that this change will in
sumclent number of medieni E. Henn, Captain and Mrs. R.F fact do nothing towards effecting graduates from Hong Kong Uni-Pike, Messrs. A.K. Lee, E.S. econpiny ant will prove to be aversity is available, the practice Tonnessen, W. Zadra, L. Beswick, rose by another name, and snel with be discontinued,” said Dr. R.E. Smill, J. Krogh-Moe, Jock ling no sweeter. It is time that Chau.
Laribe, P.H. Ho. L.W. Walkin- business wi put back into tho All three motions were unani-shaw, G. Emerson, It N. Clough hands of busmeas meit and Gov-| mausly carried.
and Y.K. Chong ernment sunited itself to the task of governing, instead of continut ing in Belds wheruin it is unskill ed and does nothing to culance its prestige.
was
Mr. A. Nicol, Hong Kong's new Director of Public Works,
worn in yesterday as a member of the Legislative Council.
HEADMASTERSHIP
IN GOVT. SCHOOLS headmastership of four Government schools was abolish-
Tho
FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS
A young woman, the mother vf a child, is now paying with six-month Imprisonment 趁 four-day stolen term for holiday.
@
The woman, Chung Moon, aged
ad by a motion before Legislative 23, was charged before Mr. Blair-
are
Another point commented upon by the speakers at this meeting was that of pensions, an ever in- creasing burden, and the failure of Guvernment to utilise the ser- vice of locally enlisted personnel. It is time that the pubile of the Colony asked itself whether the
Couricil yesterday, services of men recruited in the United Kingdom
The institutions affected are in fact so Immeasurably superior to those of Queen's College, King's College. Northcote Training College, and loenlly employed men, Fto Justify passages, pensions and at King George V School. ditional expenditure in salaries in the form of Expatriation Pay. Those who have worked m dov. ernment Departments will agree that with
very Lew exceptiona, these they are to a large extent carriet by local men who ask nothing more than a wage which will afford them a reasonable; standard of living, yet even this they are denied.
Henceforth, the hendtonsters of these institutions shall be styled. Principal, Education Department
The chunge Is designed tc focilitate the transfer of officers 12 in the Education Department,
DEBATE-ON EDUCATION
A debate on the education of children in Ilong Kong has been arranged by the King George V Association for School Parents' tomorrow ut St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.30 p.m.
One point which, we feel, might well have
been raised by the speakers is that of the tax to be Jinposed upon mineral waters. Does this tax really result in such an increase in revenue as to warrant the penalisation of an industry The motion will be: "That is it
for children to which provides employment for a better good. many workers? This add-their education In Hong Kong flonul tax will inevitably, in part than to be sent elsewhere."
one
are
untapped.
remains
pursue
SAIL FOR TIENTSIN
Kerr with giving false informs- tfon to the police in a manner to creste a public mischief.
Inspector JH, Evans, prosecut- ing. told the court that Chung
Police Station and told a Chinese Moon went to the Kowlom City rietective that she had been raped eight times by a Chinese.
Investigations however, niveal- ed that the woman had in fact, consented to live with the man in the an unnumbered hut nour Wong Hau Tample In Kowloon City
She had been given about $30 by the man who, in audition, provided her with food.
Inspector Evans further stated that the woman had told the man was a widow with an that she only child, adding that between February 24 and 28, she had been intimate with the Chinese man some six to eight times, with her consent.
Immortal | Inquest Into Death Of
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Reproduced here is one of the 26 new paintings by Miss Diana Kan whole exhibition opens at 10 a.m. today Bulti No. 600,
Gloucester Hotel. Lady Grantham expected to visit the display Miss Kan will leave today. for the United Kingdom this month to exhibit hor work there, On, her way back to Hong Kong she wili vlait the United States.
Phone Co. May Secure Loan
Legislative sanction was given to the Hong Kong Telephone Limited yesterday to Company
HK90,000,000 of borrow a sum from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation on gages of its properties.
mort-
Under section 2 sub-section (2) of the Telephone Company Or- dinance, the approval of Legisla-
Uive Council is required before! the Company can horrow money on the mortgage of its properties. I
RESOLUTIONS BEFORE COUNCIL
A
of number
resolutions
will be presented to the Legis- lative Council for approval today. One concerns the pra- posed Increased duty on table
waters.
Man Killed Last Year
In November last year, by a gushing brook in the comparatively stillness of an unfrequent- ed lot in Tin, Kéng Wan Village, Junk Bay, the trussed up body of a Chinese `man was. discovered, his face, partly submerged in the cool waters of the stream.
Reminders
Tdday
Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon,
Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m. Ladies Night, Yo Men's Club of Hong Kong, at Cosmo Club, 7.30 pm. RAF Association luncheon, Jaco- bean Room, UK Hotel, 12.45
p.m.
MA Mfew feet above him, caught by the rushes of the hiilside, hung a handkerchief. flapping in the wind.
The inquest into the death of the Chinese man--Wong Bal=lim, aged 45, walter-ħad n relatively short session, ending with the solemn words of the Coroner, Mr. Dinit-kerr in the verdict of: Murder by person or persons un- known."
Dr. Alvares, medical officer-in- charge, Kowloon Mortuary, told the court that on November 2 he performed a post mortem on # Chinese male, identified by two brother and the Illustrated lecture on "Teaching persons--the
"Music In Junior Schools" by wife of the deceased-as Wong Miss D11. Simpson, St. John's Sai-lim, aged 45, a waiter, whose Cathedral Hall. 5.15 p.m. formet address was
3. Lok Kround floor, Hong Exhibition of Paintings by Miss Hing Lane.
Kong Suite No. 80 Diane, Kan. Gloucester Hotel, 10 a.771.
Six wounds were found by Dr. Weekly Alm show by British Alvares in the body of Wong Sal- Counell, talk ni This is in, and three bullets were ex- Cannda"
tracted fourth, exhibited in court, was found in the stream by Detective Sub-inspector Scragg. officer-in-charge of the case, who was conducting the inquest in court.
by Mr. K. Noble Helena May Institute, 5.30
p.in. Beillios Girls School Old Girls Association anuni general meeting at YWCA, 6 p.m.
Coming Events
TOMORROW Music Group of Sino-British Club, concert at St. Stephen's Gir's College, 5.30 p.m. FIK Working Artists Guild, ex- dubition of Chinese calligro- phy, Hotel Cecil, 11 am. Exhibition of Paintings by Miss Diana Kan, Suite No. 805. Houcester Hotel, 10 a.m.
Lecture on William Blake by Mr. DJ, Sloss, at Fung Plug Shan Library, 5.30 p.m.
SATURDAY
vocal Recital by Frutossor (Me- dan A. Olsußell, St. Andrew's Church Hall, 3 p.m. Exhibition of Painting by Mias Diana Kan, Suite No. 800, Gloucester Hotel, 19 a.m.
UNFIT AS DWELLING
The manager of the China Provident Loan and Mortgage 171-178 Company Limited,
Dr. Alvarer -unið `that death war due to the bullet wounds, piercing the head and cheat from: the buck. He also stated that death took place about 14 days from the date of the post mortem (November 2).
The wife of the dead man staled
the inquest that she last saw
her husband allve
at noon
Ockber 20. The next time Rhe Ce saw him again was when the de- composed form of her husband was shown to her at the Kowloon Martuary.
man was
Irtentification of the made possible by an oil pipe and
tin of tobacco found on the dre Cased and recognised by his wife, who could also make out the de composed but still discernable features of her husband.
The handkerchief that hung da the rushes at Sin Kong Wan VII- Inge was stated by Inspector Scragg to be either a blindfold or the gag
FOOD AND
FUEL PRICES
Food knit fuel rate compiled by the
The resolution proposes to in- Connaught Road, West, was summoned before the court of crease the duty from 24 cents a gallon to 48 cqnly a gallon, effec-Justice of Penee at Central Lalwur offre for the week ended March tive from midnight today.
vesterday on 14 counts of fail-2 follow ing to comply with the order Vegetabl served on him by the Urban Salt Cabbage Council-on December 4, last DI
A second resolution will ask Legislative Council's approval of the expenditure of KS45,000,000 on items under the Rehabilitation Loan Schedule of Expenditure, for the year ending March 31, 1050. e met from loan junds and charset as an advance from the surplus funds of the Colony pending reimbursement from loan funds.
The sum
tc
yen.
Fire and Flour
Ter Salt Fish.
The order was related to the Fish abatement of a nuisance at the Fork Premises of Nos. 1, 14 Tung Shing Firemont Road, Aberdeen.
Mean Card, 14 nimeru
Total
7.2 cattle $1,2000
1,0
Lazio
.2
.1870
H
1.4010
0400
210
1,5040
NT13
19.9
RBOL
TOIM
£12574
Inspector A. W. White, -pro- secuting, saki that the buildings vere found in a dangerous state A resolution to change the during an Inspection about 10 name of Philipe House to Presby-months go.
The average of the food and fuel figure The ownor
'WAS for the there weeks ended March 24 ja terlan Mission House in the First
notified to repair. the buildings," 112,7106.
the
offence.
The rehabilitation allowance, for. Be
'Daily-paid Workerut Artienne 12.10 A
Male 4x1
*
Monthly-paid Workersi month: Femsies $57.70 a month.
at least, be passed en the con- The debate will be presided It was stated that the man re- sumer, who is already poying ad-over by Mr. 1.G. Sullivan, Chair-turned to the hut one day to find ditional taxes on tobacco, yet the man of the Association, and the the woman gone, and her belong-lischedule of the Hotels Ordinones but no action was taken by month of April wifi therefore bai........ by ing taken away. He had never will be moved at today's ment- will be introduced of revenue which motion source could be tapped without impos-1 Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Collar, Mr. aeen her again until he wasing. The resolution, in addition owner.
Mr. P. J. Grim, representing Ing any additional burden upon Andersen and the Reverend J. E. brought into the case when Chung proposes to reduce the percentage decidant, pleaded guilty to the ring Conflers 12-15 a day: Pemaire 31.12 Moon sald that she had been of the rooms to be reserved for a public. the resources of which Sandbach.
raped. already strained,
Hong Kong Residents from 90 per
Mr. A.D. Leamonth, socretary per cent to 60 per cent at the
1 the company, sald in ovidence Philips House.
((Fill the company could not com- The name of the Department ply with the order of the authorl- of Supplies, Trade and Industry ly enncerned due to the fact that to be officially changed to the buildings are fully inhabit- Department of Supplies and Dis- and had discovered she had been
tribution, according to a resolu- unfaithful.
Mr. G.A. Hall, architect teati. Chung Moon was sentenced to Legislativo Council
tion to be introduced at the fed that the bulldings were six months" imprisonment.
meeting to- chsely examinert on July 2, last day for approval.
they
came
The British steamer Ninghai left the Colony yesterday for Tientsin with more than 400 lons of general cargo She has
At the moment, hundreds of thousands of persons enter this Colony annually, conduct their business from temporary addresses and depart whence taking with them their profits,
no passengers. untaxed.
Another Butterfield and Swire whilst legitimate con- cerns, which not only are taxed Vessel, the Hanyang, is due here from that Red-occupied for today Turnish employment Tor others are subjected to additional port. taxation. Has it
but
never accuted
to our good Financial Secretary waters, one of the few small that a Head Tax of $10.00 im luxuries which many in the Co- posed upon all persons entering lony can afford, the imposition of the Colony would go far towards the Hoad Tax we have suggested meeting our annual Governmental would not only be more financial expenditure whilst inflicting hardly beneficial to the Colony, but ship upon none?
would eradicate a long-standing We respectfully suggest that in- cause for gravance. - Alead of this lax upon mineral!
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In the dock, defendant admitted that she had not been raped and that her complaint to that effect) to the police was untrue. She had cooked up the story because her husband had returned to town
HEARING OF WILL DISPUTE After William G. Woo, of 3 Cheungshawan Road, the de- fendant in a will dispute, had been cross-examined by plain- tiff's counsel, hearing was ad Journed.
The case which is being heard before Sir Leslie Gibson (Chief Justice) concerns a claim for right of administration of ม estate left behind by one Woo Chong,
alies
Woo Chong-kee, Tran-nin. Woo
ol,
The plaintif is Woo Yan Niu-
who
sald
of 38 Taipo Road. Kowloon, is represented by Mr. B.A. Bernacchi, instructed by Mr. H.K. Woo. She claims that he was thợ wife of the decesed and the person enitied to administration of the
estate. Défendants
..Ýn ·
nie action are William G. Woo and Daisy Woo. the latter at present at Montreal, Canada: They claim that, to- gether with one Wesley S. Woo, present in a mental Hospital
in Canada, they are the present
a pretended will of
dated September 18, 1948.
is
COSMO CLUB MEETING
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atl.
year. The building should be re- paired, and the repair should be started from the foundation, he aald.
Defence counsel, in submission Faid that no' Ane should be-im- posed, because, the company had
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There will be a meeting at the ply with the order of the Urban Cosmo Club on April 4 at 5.30 Council.. p.ro. of Australions and
Mr. Grimth further applied a Zealanders to discuss arrange- closyre order for the premises for ments for
Annual eam- the Tesson, that, the buildings are memoration service to be held unfit for human habitation. at the Cenotaph on Anzac Day, Hearing wandjourned April 25,
April 0.
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In Lantão Murder NOW ON SALE
Additional testimony for the prosecution was given |
yesterday at the Lantad Murder trial by di' number of country-folk from Lantao Island, where most of the events' connected with the alleged murder took place.
executors and sole beneficiaries to Accused in the dock is Wong,
Among the witnesses who - gåva. secensed Fuk-lam, who is standing tal evidence yesterday were the two
for the alleged murder of brethers to the concubine of the] : The plaintiff declared that the Wong, Yao, his foster father, deceased, one of whom testified „pretended will had been revoked by her marriage to the deceased
on or about August 27, last that the accused, at the time of the on February 20, 1948,
disappearance of year.
concubine,
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Au Chaink ked 20, was Merday wettenced to sizi moni
imprisonment by Mr.
d'Almada at Central for sfon
Sonatab pen from Mr.
On additional chiared of ing to the Colony, after”! bben beni
defendant
It is sold that accused killed Wong, In the course of attempting
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